The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11


james Smith, aged 10 years, and
two children were drowned by the
upsetting of a boat by a whirlwind,
near S~hawneetown, Illinois on the Sd.
Arthur Z. Hornblower, treasurer
of the Hudson County Council OF the
ROYAL Arcanum, at Hoboken, New
Jersey, has disappeared. and is believed
to have committed suicide. y draft of
the order drawn by him was protested
on the 4th. He was a bookkeeper in the
Hoboken Bank OF Savings. The officers
Of that bank say their funds are intact.
Oscar b. Farnum, treasurer of the
! Boston Lodge, No. 1874, of Knights of
Honor. is reported to be six hundred
dollars short in his accounts. Farnum
recently attempted suicide by poison
ing and hanging. He is also accused
of stealing $1,000 from the firm Of
Holt, Adams & Co., teamsters. The
hardware store of Henry Gilbert &
Son, in Harrisburg, Pa, was robbed
of nearly $1,000 worth of cutlery on
the evening of the 81.
William A. wheeler, ex-Vice
| President of the United States, died
on the morning of the 4th. He was in
the 69th year of his age.
j. D. Gray, 25 years of age, COM
mitted suicide at a hotel in Decatur.
| Alabama, on the 4th. He owned
much property in Decatur and in
| Florida, but had been in i'll health for
some time. George d. Thomas, 30
years of age, committed suicide at his
home in Harper, Kansas, on the morn
ing of the 4th. He was a bank cashier
and had been a member of the Leglsla-
ture.
"A terrible tragedy is reported near
Owasso, Michigan. Alexander Holmes
had a housekeeper who recently mar
ried Daniel Fulton, against Holmes
wishes. Holmes ordered Fulton to dis
continue his visits to the house. This
angered Fulton, who got drunk, at
tackled his wife with a Knife, and cut
off her head. stabbed Holmes to death.
and was subsequently found in the
woods with his own throat cut, but
still living. at Rock Run, Alabama,
on the 3D., Alfred Woodley shot and
killed William Stone and mortally
wounded Robert Mills Woodley and
Stone had quarreled over a game of
cards. The wounding of Mills was ac-
cidental.
w. Stewart Syminston and
Thomas A. Symington, proprietors of
the Patapsco Chemical Works, at Balti-
more, made an assignment on the 4th.
| The trustees bond is $500, 600. Sid
ney Phelan's bucket shop, at Atlanta,
Georgia, failed on the 4th, for $780,
600, with assets. 'Phelan ran houses
in Atlanta, Montgomery, Charlotte,
Savannah, Birmingham and Selma.
Pork first threw him, then cotton, and
last coffee"
ALFRED Garfield, James Cullen and
Norman Bell were killed by a prema-
ture blast in a quarry at Binnewater,
Ulster county, New York, on the 4th,
Several Others were injured, one fa-
tally. Owen P. Reynolds was killed
and Owen Williams fatally Injured by
II fall of rock in the Empire Mine, near
Wilkesbarre, on the 4th.
"A Pacific Railroad train and
Adams Express were robbed by four
masked men neal Fort Worth, Texas,
on the the 4th. 1890 WAS taken from
the express car and three registered
letters from the mail car.
In Cincinnati on the 9Th, Fred
erick Bauer shot Pauline Bogenscheuer,
himself. Mrs. Zell is not severely
wounded, but Mrs. Bogenscheuer's
wound is considered dangerous. Bauer
had separated from his wife and Mrs.
Bogenscheuer from her husband, and
they had lived together. M. b. Farley,
Manager of the City Electric Light
Works at Danville, Virginia, shot and
killed George W. Garner, aged IS
years, on the evening of the 9th.
Garner had been too Intimate with
Farley's wife. Near Helena, Ken.
lucky, On the morning of the 9th,
John H. Field shot his wife and two
sons and then cut his own throat. All
were living at last accounts, Jealousy
and financial embarrassment caused
the tragedy. In Pittsburg, on the
Afternoon of the 9th, Frederick Her
mann, aged 80 years, ''in his own
house killed his little daughter aged Is
months, beat his wife until he thought
her dead, and then cut his throat, sew
ering the wind-pipe and jugular
VEINS" Hermann was a Lutheran, his
wife a Catholic. They managed to avoid
dispute on religious matters, she con-
seuting to the baptizing of the two
eldest children by a Lutheran minister,
but a few weeks & she had her
little daughter Lizzie baptized by a
priest. The husband did not know
of this until the 9th. when a fellow
workman told HIM Of it, and the IN
formation drove HIM to frenzy. AT
accounts he was dying and his wife
in a critical condition. A minister
was with him, and he was reading his
Bible and hymn book, awaiting death"
Hermann is said to have been ian in
telligent, sober man. Near Huron, ,
Dakota, on the morning of the 9th, :
Simeon Nelson shot and killed Mrs.
Shaw, her son., aged about Is, and her
Miss Lyman, aged about D. The
tragedy was the result of a contest over
a tree claim, which had been decided 5
in favor OF Mrs. Shaw. Nelson also /
shot a man named kilsey through the
body, fatally w%ounding him. After
the shooting Nelson returned home
and blew out his own brains. Z
While forty persons, of both sexes,
were returning from a picnic, near
Cincinnati, on the evening of the 4th,
the vehicle upset and its occupants
were thrown down an embanknent.
Six were dangerously injured, and one
Of them, Miss Frances Linderman, Is
not expected to recover AT Manuel,
Dakota, on the Sd. Mrs. Booker tenn
porarily left her house, two children,
aged respectively three and four years,
at home. "Returnlng she
found the room In which she had left
the children was on fire. Quickly
snatching the youngest child, she made
a rush for the door, in doing which she
upset the kerosene can, the oil ignitIng (
and setting fire to her clothes. She